Erin designs, develops, and implements strategies to assess and improve the quality and effectiveness of curricular learning at Bentley University. She is also responsible for ensuring strategic alignment and compliance with our New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) accreditation and supports the Office of the Dean of Business in maintaining Bentley’s AACSB accreditation.  In her role, she supervises the learning design team, who support faculty in developing new courses and mapping curricula for new programs.  This team also supports faculty in implementing best practices in teaching across all modalities, with a strong emphasis on inclusive teaching practices.  Erin has been a member of Bentley University since 2008, previously working in the Residential Center and the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.  Erin earned her PhD in Higher Education from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and her Master of Education and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Erin is also a proud recipient of Bentley’s Rainbow Award. 

MJ collaborates with faculty and other instructional designers on all aspects of instructional design and content development for asynchronous online programs as well as for traditional programs. She works directly with faculty to identify course learning outcomes and evaluates the most appropriate asynchronous or synchronous approaches and web-based tools to meet those objectives, and ensures the successful launch of all asynchronous courses developed. She also supports faculty in creating and managing their Faculty Profiles and Promotion & Tenures sites. MJ holds a Master of Education in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a Bachelor of Arts from Case Western Reserve University. She has taught education courses on adult learning theory and curriculum development. MJ has been at Bentley since 2007 and was awarded the Bentley Founder's Day Award in 2023.

Elena Rinaldi joined Bentley University in fall 2024 as the Associate Director of Learning Design for Graduate Programs. With a rich background in learning design, she brings experience from various institutions and organizations. Before Bentley, Elena worked at Kineo, partnering with corporate clients to meet their learning and development needs. She also held positions at Harvard Business School, where she contributed to hybrid classroom design and collaborated closely with faculty, and at Boston Consulting Group, where she worked on internal learning projects.
Elena holds a master’s degree in Educational Technology Leadership from the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. At Bentley, she is particularly excited to collaborate across teams and to play a key role in designing the new Professional MBA program, with a passion for creating impactful blended learning experiences that truly benefit students.

Debra has been at Bentley since 2018, and has several years of experience in training and development where she has provided effective, efficient, and engaging training for a wide-ranging audience. She has worked in the health care field for over a decade as well as a marketing research training company. She has presented and participated at national User Conferences about eLearning features and concepts, written blog posts on eLearning, and has created workshops on visual design/infographics. Her role as Senior Instructional designer is to take on course content and turn it into visually engaging learning activities for classes, supervise our work-study student employee, and support other divisional design requests. She completed an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts Boston, an MBA from Suffolk University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Clark University.

Georgia has been leading at the intersection of pedagogical excellence and inclusion for nearly three decades. She has worked in education as an expert teacher, curriculum developer, pedagogical coach, accreditation associate, and strategic development director for a non-profit. Georgia has designed in-person, hybrid, and asynchronous courses. She has led large-scale workshops for academic leaders nationally and internationally on topics such as inclusive pedagogy, Universal Design for learning, Restorative Justice practices, and cognitive flexibility. Georgia graduated with an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Educational Leadership with a particular focus on how diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice interact within the education sector. She also holds an Ed.M. from The College of New Rochelle in Curriculum and Design and a Bachelor of Science from Suffolk University in Clinical Psychology.

Gaby has been designing, developing, and evaluating instruction for the past three years as an Instructional Designer, and has ten years’ experience as a classroom teacher in both higher education and K-12. After completing her M.Ed. in Learning Design and Technology from Arizona State University in 2022, Gaby has created instructional materials on topics such as mentorship, immigration, health and safety, and other academic topics. She specializes in leveraging storytelling to engage learners in experiences that build abstract skills through simulations, and strives to empower faculty to use the tools at their disposal to help students engage with instructors and each other, regardless of physical distance.  

Previously, she earned a B.A. with a double major in Classics and French from John Carroll University, and an M.A. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.